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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Eight four four Mojo Live eight four four six sixty five.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
This is Mojo in the Morning, Mojo in the Morning.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
So when I tell you guys this story, I want
to know what people's thoughts are about it. But I
also want to know if this has ever happened, because
I think this was more common maybe when I was
younger or even older than that, like you know, even
like the next generation, it was common. So friends of ours,
(00:42):
friends of Chelsea and I have a son that is
an eighth grader. He is finishing in his eighth grade,
is going to go on to high school next year,
and they just recently found out that actually they didn't
recently find out he was dating a girl. They knew
he was dating a girl, but they never really met
this girl. They just knew that there was a girl
at school that he was dating. And they just recently
(01:06):
found out that this girl was much older than this
fourteen year old or thirteen year old eighth grader was
when he came home and told his parents that he
had to get a tuxedo to take her to senior prom.
Shut he is no senior senior prom like tenth, eleven, twelve,
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whatever how old it was twelfth grade college. Yeah, yeah,
Like I don't like that. So he's he is thirteen
years old and he has been dating a girl and
I don't know if she's seventeen or eighteen now maybe
she's a young senior. But he's been dating this girl
for like the last year or so, and she's taking
him to prom or wants to take him to prom. Now,
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the thing that's interesting is, and don't call them absentee parents,
because the kid goes to the middle school that's right
next to the high school. So they're all pretty much
right there with each other, and they'll share, like they
their gym that they you know, the kid plays sports
in and does all this stuff in is they go
to the high schools, you know for the sports because
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it's all like everybody's compacted in the same district area, right,
you know. And I'm like, as a dad, I'm looking
at that going way to go kid, you know what
I mean. Like, I'm like at the mom's Like usually
the mom is like what, yeah, Like what's going on here?
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Like what high school senior is taking an eighth grader
to her prom?
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Why are you talking to an eighth grader? Well, that's
the obvious question. Yea, because he don't look like an
eighth grader. But that's that's weird, that's creepy.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
But even before that, you said they've been dating for
a year, so he was actually seventh grade.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Well, I don't know technically if it was beginning of
this year or not, but I do know this, Like,
first off, it's crazy because if you will, you have
to admit this. There are these kids that they you know,
you're like looking at the kid, going, okay, I can't
tell the difference if you're thirteen years old or nineteen
years old. You know what I mean, everybody looks more.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
You ask, yeah, right, But do you ask if you're
a senior in high school?
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Yes? Yes, yes, really yeah, you have to yes. Do
somebody know what's the Michigan law on that? If you're
seventeen years old, can you date a thirteen year old?
I think you can probably legally. Yeah, I don't care
if it's legal. It's still weird. His question is legal?
I don't care, only worry about the law.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
I mean, I'm trying to think because I dated when
I was a freshman in high school, I dated a
senior and I think for a year or two. It
probably wasn't kosher that to me aka legal. Oh my,
my mom was so up in arms about that. And
we ended up dating for almost eight years and now
like we're very very close family friends. But at the time,
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I can remember my mom equating it to a child.
She's like, you are just learning how to crawl. He
is already knows how to run. You are in two
very different stages of your life. This is not going
to work.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
I said to our friends, I go, you realize that
this is the reverse Bill Belichick.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
Yeah, I mean, if it's the way that you know
you're referencing it where the child that's younger is a guy,
I'm fully allowing my son to operate in this relationship,
but if the shoe is on the other foot, I'm
not going.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
To act like I would be the same way if
you were a head a daughter. Hell no.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
So it's funny double standard is there, and I'm okay
with it. I'm four years excuse me, mmm, that's called them. That's,
by the way, brought to you by Starbucks egg Bites.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
I am four years older than Chelsea, so this would
be like me taking her to my senior prom.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
But it's just so different when you're talking about middle
school and high school for starters, and at that age,
I do also think like it's and it is a
ste heard like we said the girl guy thing, like
the fact that it's an older girl, any younger boy.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
I can't even say guy boy. He was just starting
pubert thirteen years old. No he's not. You start puberty younger,
don't you not?
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Me?
Speaker 5 (05:12):
I had hair on my pickle when I was like thinking,
I did God get that image out of it?
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Actually it wasn't a pickle at that time. It was
a cucumber.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
I like pickle.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Stop it. It had to develop into a pickle. What's
going on? How you doing, Lucy?
Speaker 1 (05:29):
I am good?
Speaker 3 (05:30):
What's that? What do you think of this? Whole time
I was.
Speaker 6 (05:33):
Telling it was it lydia or that Actually I went
to high school. I don't know so much about it
because I really wasn't involved. But but one of the
junior girls actually got pregnant by an eighth grader. Wow,
And it was like the talk of like the crowd.
I didn't really know too much ample about it. It was
just one of those fingers I have that's kind of.
Speaker 7 (05:54):
Weird and crazy.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
Why everybody else, Ye always said, was he did?
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Did did he look? Did he look older than than
you know he was?
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Or yeah?
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Are they both younger?
Speaker 8 (06:09):
I mean.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
I guess old.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
I mean he kind of looks older, but that I
don't know.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
I mean I see some of these kids. I see
some of these kids that they've got more facial hair
than uh than keV. I mean, you see some of
these kids can grow some amazing beards, you know. Indeed,
what's up? Sarah Hi?
Speaker 9 (06:32):
Hi?
Speaker 6 (06:33):
So I'm a mental health therapist for kids. Yeah, and
this comes up very often with teenagers where the parents
are like losing their mind because a kid is you know,
the age difference. So legally, in Michigan, kids can date
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for whatever pretty much any age, as long as they're
under eighteen. However, the legal age of consent for anything
sexual is sixteen. So if one of them is sixteen
or older and the other one is under then the
parents can technically charge them with Detroit rape.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Can the can the parents sign off on it being
an okay thing?
Speaker 1 (07:20):
No?
Speaker 6 (07:20):
Honestly, it's just kind of one of those things that
if the parent's okay with it, then they wouldn't press charges.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
That's I always wonder that, like when you'd see these
stories where there would be the dating going on like this,
and the parents were okay with it, So eventually you
better be a good boy or a good girl otherwise
mom and dad could one day come back and charge
you with that. Yeah yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 8 (07:45):
Or like if like if the boy is older and
the girl is younger and they the girl gets pregnant
when it comes out of a sudden, yeah, suddenly aren't
okay with it?
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (08:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Crazy? Uh, Donna, what's happening is Mojo in the morning,
good morning?
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (08:08):
That The whole scenario is just kind of crazy.
Speaker 10 (08:10):
Like my daughter was just in the garter, just drop
her off to school and she said, absolutely not.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
She just turned eighteen on Friday.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
She's like taking the eighth grader to a senior proms like,
absolutely not.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Well, I don't know if they are going to because
I think that that's going to be one of those
things where they have to sign off on it. I
thought it was weird when the high school kids will
bring like you did, the older kid.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
I did bring my boyfriend back for my junior prom
and he was already in college, And first off, it
was not that fun because he didn't know anybody. I
felt like I was babysitting him. I felt like it
was on me for him to have a good time.
Speaker 9 (08:43):
And also like, yeah, also, yeah, I don't know how
that worked at your school, but mine was. They couldn't
be twenty one or older, so you could bring somebody
over like that had graduated high school, but they had to.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
Be twenty yeah, which I don't think he was of them.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Donna, thanks for the call.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Take care of yourself. Yeah, that makes sense. Yeah, listen
to this one. Hold on, Samantha, are you there. Yes, Hey, Samantha.
We're talking about in eighth grader going to a senior
in high school's prom. What's the story that you have
for us?
Speaker 10 (09:16):
I was eight years old at the time. My sister's
my oldest sister's eight years older than me. She was
in eighth grade and she tried to go to her
boyfriend's senior prom, but they wouldn't allow her in. You
have to have permission at our school. You have to
have permission from them in order to bring somebody that
doesn't go to that school. Even though she was in
middle school and he was in high school, it wasn't
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the same building, so they wouldn't allow them.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
What did your parents think about your sister dating an
older guy like that? An older boy? Oh, they didn't
care really, and we're okay with that. That's amazing. It
was dad, because I was gonna say, did dad own guns?
I mean, that's all I would there to think Dad's
going to be right after you. What's up, Joey, Hey,
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how's it going good? When you were in school, you
did this?
Speaker 7 (10:03):
Uh not this not a senior in an eighth grade,
but I we started talking. I was a sophomore and
she was a seventh grader at the end of the year.
We ended up getting together when I was a junior
and she was in eighth grade. Jeez, and we stayed
together for two and a half years.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Wait a second, you were a sophomore with a seventh grader.
You don't think that that's still seeming a little bit weird.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Well, okay, so it does sound weird, but you I mean,
like you're driving at the beginning of the year, you're
dropping her off at like middle school, Like that's crazy.
Speaker 7 (10:40):
No, So we we weren't dating then, but like we
had started talking. One of our mutual friends actually encouraged
us to talk, and so it wasn't until later on
that we actually ended up getting together.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Quick question for you. Did you guys weren't having sex
at all when you were in high school? Were you? No?
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Not?
Speaker 7 (11:02):
I mean we did later on, but it was I
was a senior freshman.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Okay, so but you got but you go to her
parents house and stuff, and they knew you were a
high school kid. Yeah, that's amazing. These parents are unbelievable.
Speaker 7 (11:17):
Huh, that's wild. But I mean I was a good kid.
I wasn't.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
You'd be right, were here?
Speaker 9 (11:30):
No?
Speaker 3 (11:30):
No, Yeah, that's what That's the thing. I think the
parents end up going. I really like Joey. His name
is Joey, you know what I mean. I mean, that's
how there's not a Joey ever. That's a bad kid.
I love this Joey. That's what they want you to think, Joey. Yeah.
And then when you break that seventh grade girl's heart,
that dad's gonna kick your ass. A little Joey mother effort,
(11:54):
you know what I mean? Where is that joe he was?
Speaker 5 (11:58):
Ah?
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Well, there you go. That's the reason why she she's
a seventh grader dating a sophomore. The dad's a post
of the out of the business. We need dad in
her life. All right, Well, thank you for the call, buddy.
You guys aren't together still, are you? No? Okay? I
always wondered about that, like the people that met in
middle school and continued on and stuff. Yeah, that's amazing,
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all right, this is nasty, bro. Yeah, oh no, that
seventh grade. What's up Stacy?
Speaker 6 (12:27):
Hey, good morning you guys.
Speaker 8 (12:29):
I'm wondering.
Speaker 6 (12:31):
I'm wondering if the girl even knows.
Speaker 8 (12:34):
That he is an eighth grader. Because these kids lie
so much over snapshot, she could think that he's a
senior from another school.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Well, she does know, because they had to get permission
or trying to get permission to go to prom. But
with that said, you're right, you know what I mean.
I mean, it's this is no Honestly, I see this
is no different than the older guy that's, you know,
trying to hit on the younger girl. I think this
is still even though the ages are different, it's still
sexual predatory.
Speaker 9 (13:03):
You know what's normalize asking for birth certificates.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Honestly, you have to carry it around.
Speaker 9 (13:09):
Yes, they're too young to have driver's licenses.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Yeah, I feel like this is one of those things
where we need to do that to catch a predator
thing or like you ever see the guy that's in
the grocery store, that or that chases down the guys
in the grocery store and screams, this.
Speaker 5 (13:23):
Guy you start punching them, Well, it's why.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Yeah, he starts beating the crap out of the guy.
If I ever witnessed that one day, I would say, hey,
keep your voice down right now.